[hobbit] Don't make the pie higher!

anyone suggest HNh (Hobbit is not hobbit) to follow GNU (gnu not unix) ?

Josh Luthman wrote:

Flushed Fish has my vote.

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Gary Baluha <gumby3203 at gmail.com <mailto:gumby3203 at gmail.com>> wrote:

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Galen Johnson
<Galen.Johnson at sas.com <mailto:Galen.Johnson at sas.com>> wrote:

    I'm not saying they weren't very nice...I agree it could have
    been handled in a much less friendly manner...lawyers never
    cease to amuse me.

    Of course, when we pick a new name, I'm going to have to
    figure out a different name for The Shire to go with
    it...maybe I'll call it "Live Dog" or "Undead Hamster" or
    "Flushed Fish"... :-D


Hahah, "Undead Hamster"!  That name immediately reminded me of the
"Hampster Dance"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampster_Dance]
 

    =G=

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk
    <mailto:henrik at hswn.dk>]
    Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 10:32 AM
    To: hobbit at hswn.dk <mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk>
    Subject: Re: [hobbit] Don't make the pie higher! (was: RE:
    [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
    happen)

    In
    <36304.192.168.0.1.1217859745.squirrel at epperson.homelinux.net
    <mailto:36304.192.168.0.1.1217859745.squirrel at epperson.homelinux.net>>
    "Hobbit User in Richmond" <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net
    <mailto:hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net>> writes:

    >On Mon, August 4, 2008 09:00, Galen Johnson wrote:
    >> After reading the letters, it looked to me that as soon as
    they found out
    >> they couldn't pin anyone down to get a slice of the
    ephemeral pie, they
    >> decided that the name should be changed.

    >Well, as a PHB who's also a Linux lead, the way I read the
    letters is that
    >as soon as they found out they couldn't pin anyone down to
    commit to not
    >selling  slices of their client's pie and not giving any more
    of it away
    >than was already the case, they wanted a name change.  I
    thought the
    >attitude was quite refreshing after seeing decades worth of
    threatening
    >cease-and-desist letters.


    I agree. I think they have been treated me nicely; they could
    have just
    sent me a "stop-doing-this-or-we'll-sue-you-now" letter. They
    didn't,
    and in fact they have been generous to suggest a couple of
    possible
    name changes that I could do which would keep them happy.

    Add to this that they actually knew what I was talking about,
    when I
    told them that Hobbit is an Open Source product, so there is
    no money
    involved.

    They have a trademark to defend, and one of the rules of that
    game is
    that they MUST react when they become aware of possible
    violations of
    their trademark; if they don't, then they can forfeit their
    ownership
    of the trademark. So they have to do something, and I think
    they handled
    this nicely.

    Sure - having to rename everythin IS annoying, but I should
    have thought
    about that when I first picked the name.


    Regards,
    Henrik


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